Chase Daniel agrees to terms with Chiefs

They might have been interested, but Daniel apparently wasn’t willing to engage in a competition with Mark Sanchez, David Garrard, Greg McElroy and anyone else the Jets dig up this offseason.

Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Daniel has reached agreement in principle on a three-year deal with the Chiefs. That would likely mean Daniel’s leaving his post as Drew Brees‘ backup to serve in the same role behind Alex Smith. Moving ahead of Smith may not be the unscalable mountain that Brees presents in New Orleans, but the new Chief signal caller does have two more years left on his deal.

Daniel has thrown nine regular season passes in his NFL career. If Smith remains healthy and effective, he likely won’t be adding too many throws to that total in 2013.

Chiefs already have better QB’s now than they did the entire time Scott Pioli was running things. Sad thing is, they could have had Smith last year and gave up NOTHING! I know it’s early but I can definitely see Kansas City being a wildcard contender if they use that #1 pick right.

Only the KU fans are hating on this signing because he destroyed them in Arrowhead in the big game a few years back to KU from becoming #1 in the Nation.

andymc58 says:Mar 12, 2013 7:02 PM

Man, this has disaster written all over it. You’ve brought in Alex Smith, who the fan base isn’t jumping for joy over. And the backup QB is the most popular guy in town when you’re not an elite signal caller anyway. And you bring in Chase Daniel to the only place in the country where people think he’s good. OH NO. Smith is never even gonna have a chance with a lot of chiefs fans now. Really bad move.

andymc58 says:Mar 12, 2013 7:31 PM

I’m not a KU fan. I’m just not a Mizzou fan, so I can see this more clearly. May as well bring in Tebow too, and really stir the pot for people who can’t see past their biases.